Pretend Quotes
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
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If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.
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If you are not the best, then pretend you are.
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Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.
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I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.
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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
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There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
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I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is.
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I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it's like they're trying to pretend it's not there.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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In the military, when the enemy turned on the enemy, they called it “red on red.” Soldiers didn’t have to pretend to be sad about it.
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When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
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Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
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Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there Wimbledon. When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
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We don't have to pretend that the sun is shining when it isn't, but we must never give up hope that it will shine again.
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Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.
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Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I'm not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that's just my thought process.
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I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.
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I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
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Gina and Susie were cool, though. No hint of the beer they said they were going to score. They played good girls to my parents. Not that they weren't good girls. That's exactly what they were: good girls who wanted to pretend they were bad girls but who never would be bad girls because they were too decent.
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We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.
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Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
